The Blog of Small Things

  Name : As good as my word Author : K.M.Chandrasekhar Year of Publication : 2022 Genre : Non-fiction, Memoir Rating : **** ( 4 stars out of 5) K.M.Chandrasekhar, the veteran administrator who retired from IAS as Cabinet Secretary, Government of India pens a tell-all memoir that pulls no punches. Like the best of thriller novels, the narrative of the book is unpredictable as every page introduces a new domain that he worked in (while thriller novels happen in an imagined world, this is a work of non-fiction). Within the limited space of nearly 300 pages, the author manages terror attacks in Mumbai, vegetable shops in Kerala's festive season, drinks with Soviet pepper traders to clinch a business deal, learns how an Arabian sheikh eats, builds a Technopark for his state's capital city, negotiates hard with the Developed Countries at WTO, confront's Reliance's unscientific oil-pricing formula, does last-minute firefighting to ensure India hosts the Commonwealth games well...

  Name : The Architect of the new BJP Author : Ajay Singh Year of Publication : 2022 Genre : Non-fiction, Politics Rating : * 1/2( One and a half stars out of 5) The author focuses on how Narendra Modi's organizational skills have helped widen the social base of Bharatiya Janata Party making it the largest political party in the world. The book provides insights on how BJP is miles ahead of other political parties in terms of ground work done at the booth level. Despite such positives, the book ends up eulogising it's subject glossing over the grey areas. The book gets it's research right but is found wanting in the most essential ingredient of any book : Honesty.